Hackers Increasingly Using RTF Template Injection Technique in Phishing Attacks

Three different state-sponsored threat actors aligned with China, India, and Russia have been observed adopting a new method called RTF aka Rich Text Format template injection as part of their phishing campaigns to deliver malware to targeted systems. "RTF template injection is a novel technique...

APT annual review 2021

In the Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky, we track the ongoing activities of more than 900 advanced threat actors and activity clusters; you can find our quarterly overviews here, here and here. For this annual review, we have tried to focus on what we consider to be the most...

ScarCruft APT Mounts Desktop/Mobile Double-Pronged Spy Attacks

The North Korea-linked ScarCruft advanced persistent threat APT group has developed a fresh, multiplatform malware family for attacking North Korean defectors, journalists and government organizations involved in Korean Peninsula affairs. Since 2019, ScarCruft aka APT37 or Temp.Reaper has been...

Shape-Shifting ‘Tardigrade’ Malware Hits Vaccine Makers

An APT has attacked two separate vaccine manufacturers this year using a shape-shifting malware that appears at first to be a ransomware attack but later shows to be far more sophisticated, researchers have found. Dubbed Tardigrade by the Bioeconomy ​​Information Sharing and Analysis Center...

Hackers Targeting Biomanufacturing Facilities With Tardigrade Malware

An advanced persistent threat APT has been linked to cyberattacks on two biomanufacturing companies that occurred this year with the help of a custom malware loader called "Tardigrade." That's according to an advisory published by Bioeconomy Information Sharing and Analysis Center BIO-ISAC this...

APT C-23 Hackers Using New Android Spyware Variant to Target Middle East Users

A threat actor known for striking targets in the Middle East has evolved its Android spyware yet again with enhanced capabilities that allow it to be stealthier and more persistent while passing off as seemingly innocuous app updates to stay under the radar. The new variants have "incorporated ne...

What Avengers Movies Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity

Marvel has been entertaining us for the last 20 years. We have seen gods, super-soldiers, magicians, and other irradiated heroes fight baddies at galactic scales. The eternal fight of good versus evil. A little bit like in cybersecurity, goods guys fighting cybercriminals. If we choose to go with...

Threats to ICS and industrial enterprises in 2022

Continuing trends In recent years, we have observed various trends in the changing threat landscape for industrial enterprises, most of which have been evolving for some time. We can say with high confidence that many of these trends will not only continue, but gain new traction in the coming yea...

A week in security (Nov 15 – Nov 21)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Instagram’s memorialize feature abused to memorialize…Instagram’s boss Evasive manoeuvres: HTML smuggling explained FBI server hijacked to send up to 100,000 bogus attack mails New Mac malware raises more questions about Apple’s security patching SharkBot Android...

APT Actors Exploiting Newly Identified Vulnerability in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus

Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework, Version 8. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for referenced threat actor tactics and for techniques. This joint advisory is the result of analytic efforts between the...

FBI issues flash alert after APT groups exploited VPN flaws

By Waqas With this; FatPipe joins the list of VPN providers that have faced a similar situation in the past, including Fortinet, Cisco, Pulse Secure, and Citrix. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI issues flash alert after APT groups exploited VPN flaws...

Iranian Government-Sponsored APT Cyber Actors Exploiting Microsoft Exchange and Fortinet Vulnerabilities in Furtherance of Malicious Activities

Summary Actions to Take Today to Protect Against Iranian State-Sponsored Malicious Cyber Activity • Immediately patch software affected by the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-34473, 2018-13379, 2020-12812, and 2019-5591. • Implementmulti-factor authentication. • Usestrong, unique passwords.v...

FBI Issues Flash Alert on Actively Exploited FatPipe VPN Zero-Day Bug

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has disclosed that an unidentified threat actor has been exploiting a previously unknown weakness in the FatPipe MPVPN networking devices at least since May 2021 to obtain an initial foothold and maintain persistent access into vulnerable networks,...

Patch now! FatPipe VPN zero-day actively exploited

According to its marketing team, a FatPipe MPVPN can make your VPN "900% more secure." Well, I dont know about that, but I do know a way to make your MPVPN admin console 100% more secure, and that you should do so right away, by installing the latest version of its software. Why? Because older...

Updated: APT Exploitation of ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Vulnerability

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, CISA, and Coast Guard Cyber Command CGCYBER have updated the Joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA published on September 16, 2021, which details the active exploitation of an authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2021-40539 in Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService...

FBI: FatPipe VPN Zero-Day Exploited by APT for 6 Months

A threat actor has been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in FatPipe’s virtual private network VPN devices as a way to breach companies and gain access to their internal networks, since at least May, the FBI has warned. “As of November 2021, FBI forensic analysis indicated exploitation of a 0-d...

MuddyWater is taking advantage of old vulnerabilities

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, and the United Kingdoms National Cyber Security Centre NCSC have issued a joint...

U.S., U.K. and Australia Warn of Iranian Hackers Exploiting Microsoft, Fortinet Flaws

Cybersecurity agencies from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. on Wednesday released a joint advisory warning of active exploitation of Fortinet and Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities by Iranian state-sponsored actors to gain initial access to vulnerable systems for follow-on activities...

Advanced threat predictions for 2022

Over the past 12 months, the style and severity of APT threats has continued to evolve. Despite their constantly changing nature, there is a lot we can learn from recent APT trends to predict what might lie ahead in the coming year. Based on the collective knowledge and insights of our experts, w...

Iranian Government-Sponsored APT Cyber Actors Exploiting Microsoft Exchange and Fortinet Vulnerabilities

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory highlighting ongoing malicious cyber activity by an advanced persistent threat APT group that FBI,...